Mary Agnes Donoghue


Director, Screenwriter

About

Birth Place
Queens, New York, USA

Biography

Short story writer and poet whose first screenplay "The Buddy System" was filmed in 1984. She has subsequently scripted the female buddy film "Beaches" (1988), co-produced and co-written the Goldie Hawn thriller, "Deceived" and, with no prior behind-the-camera experience, made her directing debut with "Paradise" (both 1991) which she adapted from Jean Loup Hubert's 1987 French film, "Le ...

Bibliography

"Hot Flashes"
Mary Agnes Donoghue

Biography

Short story writer and poet whose first screenplay "The Buddy System" was filmed in 1984. She has subsequently scripted the female buddy film "Beaches" (1988), co-produced and co-written the Goldie Hawn thriller, "Deceived" and, with no prior behind-the-camera experience, made her directing debut with "Paradise" (both 1991) which she adapted from Jean Loup Hubert's 1987 French film, "Le Grand Chemin."

Life Events

1984

Wrote first filmed screenplay, "The Buddy System"

1988

Scripted the feature adaptation of the novel "Beaches", starring Bette Midler

1991

Co-wrote and co-produced "Deceived", starring Goldie Hawn

1991

Feature directorial debut, "Paradise", starring Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson

2002

Wrote screen adaptation of the best-selling novel "White Oleander"

Bibliography

"Hot Flashes"
Mary Agnes Donoghue